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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...debates, suggested that perhaps there was something wrong with House of Commons acoustics. In Commissioner Ramsbotham's favorite language, Latin, they invited him to break Parliamentary rules,* come up and listen. His department could authorize repairs, if needed. Commissioner Ramsbotham accepted, listened for an hour. Said he (in letter-perfect Latin...
Last week all Europe was excited about the propaganda battle between England's Commander Stephen King-Hall and Germany's Paul Joseph Goebbels (TIME, July 31). As Commander King-Hall's fourth letter to his "dear German readers" reached Germany, Britishers received in their morning mail copies of a mimeographed pamphlet entitled News From Germany. Published by Dr. Goebbels' good friend H. R. Hoffmann of Starnberg, News From Germany bears beneath its masthead the motto...
...Says a letter from Publisher Hoffmann: "The sole aim of News From Germany is to further a better understanding of the aspirations, the achievements, and the spirit of Germany; which, I am convinced, will serve the cause of world peace. The receipt of unbiased and accurate information will help readers to form just opinions." But Publisher Hoffmann's information is hardly unbiased or accurate, nor has it the humor, conscious and unconscious, that Commander King-Hall's news-letter has. Sample headlines...
Nowadays Carl Shannon is the highest paid man on his paper, next to the editor-in-chief. He is neat, careful, dignified and exacting. He will pass no headline that begins or ends with a preposition, and to him all two-letter words are prepositions. He expects to spend the rest of his life on the Enterprise and says: "I'm too old to be changing jobs any more." His friends think he is older than the 57 years he confesses to, but admit that he might just look older...
...Real-estate Dealer Ropp, who is also a painter in his spare time, thought up a final terrific touch: a series of tableaux reproducing famous paintings and sculpture on a picture-frame stage. This year 44 paintings and ten pieces of sculpture are on the program. Its 54 letter-perfect, 90-second blackouts introduced by singers and dancers, separated by orchestral interludes and culminating in da Vinci's Last Supper, have reached a professional pitch of perfection...